Writing · Novel
Active 1967–present · Awards: Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Ivan Antonovich (Antipovich) Yefremov was a Soviet paleontologist, science-fiction author and social thinker. He founded taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns.